Historical Perspectives

We have no concept of the history of the countries we attack and coup. This week the Don declared Iran as the most evil country on Earth. Sorry Don, the most evil country is your BFF, Israel, with the US in a close second. We're about to send Israel thousands of 4000 pound bombs to finish destroying Gaza. That's evil. We consider Yemen as a primitive culture, but it is a 5000 year civilization and is the culture which spread Islam around the world. Someone this week defined Hubris as a mix of ignorance and arrogance. That's pretty descriptive of the US.

Afternoon folks!

There's some interesting stuff to listen to this weekend here, starting off with what is arguably Jimmy Witherspoon's best album followed by a great compilation of recordings of Chicago Jazz and blues outfit, The Harlem Hamfats with vocalist Rosetta Howard - give it a shot. After that is a zydeco album from Boozoo Chavis and then it's on to blues rock with albums from Canned Heat and Roy Buchanan. Finishing off is a really solid album from The Radiators.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning, good people! Hope you are all in fine fettle!

To start with the bad news, the damn love bugs are still swarming us, still messing up cars, and still the talk of the town. In fact, they are even in the Houston area, which is 60 miles away. This is Round Two, Week Nine.

To transition to good news, I can finish up my active files in a couple of weeks. We start moving out office furniture this coming Wednesday. Also, my grocery store price comparison is holding steady.

And in a bad new/good news happy ending, Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream is the top seller in Texas. It is made at a creamery in Brenham, and it is absolutely delicious. Best tasting Vanilla ice cream EVAH. Except it doesn't contain vanilla. It is flavored with villinen, a petroleum product, with some adverse side effects. So, Breyer and Hagen Daaz are waiting for my sampling. I only eat ice cream 3 or 4 times a year, but when I do, I don't won't to eat an oil refinery by-product. Same with medicine, btw.

Folks, do you ever get tired of the political bullshit to the point that you just want to walk away from it all?

Yeah, me too.

Have you ever asked yourself why you haven't walked away from it all already?

Yeah, me too.

But yet, here we are. Still pointing out the bullshit as we see it.

Why is that? Why do we do it?

I certainly can't speak for anyone else, but I can speak for myself.

I'm drawing a blank, so here are a few memes. Hopefully you haven't seen all of them already.